Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minor roles are brandished competently. The lighting, especially when there is hardly any light on stage, is also fine. The whole production is directed with care and spirit by Bretaigne Windust; he introduces several amusing gestures and poses, creates humor with several clever props--e.g., a dead man's shoes--and his ingenious curtain calls are witty. As a whole, Arsenic and Old Lace is a pleasure...
...George Cram "Jig" Cook, founder of the Provincetown Playhouse and inspirer of Eugene O'Neill when the playwright's work was first produced on the Cape in 1916. The elder Cook, writes O'Neill, was "always enthusiastic, vital, impatient with everything that smacked of falsity--he represented the spirit of revolt." Cook fils is also something of a rebel. When Cook pere died, a legacy to Harl provided for a Harvard education. About 1930, Harl came to Harvard--for three days--and then packed off with his inherited loot to Europe, where he bought a motorcycle. He claims some sort...
...colder, more modern fear that perhaps they do." The fear is that, without an adequate philosophy to shape its generosity, big business may erect a vast new paternalism as sterile as the welfare state. In education, some observers argue that corporate coddling may stifle the independent academic spirit...
...silver . . . the cave of Ali Baba stored with stolen gold and silver, the underground garden in which Aladdin found jewels growing on trees ... A wholly materialist city is nothing but a dream incarnate. Venice is the world's unconscious: a miser's glittering hoard . . . This is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries...
What was most gratifying from the Harvard point of view was the outstanding play of the sophomores on the team--namely big Bob Shaunessy, quarterback McLaughlin, Nat Dodge, Woody Harris, Hal Anderson, and Pete Briggs. These men showed tremendous spirit, and Shaunessy's play in the line almost singularly forced the Blue outside. Inside the ends, the Crimson was very tough, although it did suffer a tough break when center Marv Lebovitz had to leave the game early with an injury...